1 August 2011

Playing the new guitars Lizzie made for us! Now we can be real rock stars!

On a quiet Friday afternoon, The Kahu room were lucky enough to get to go on an excursion to the park!

Jo Jo is a real daredevil!

Tommy spend hours making an enclosure for the dinosaurs and elephants! 

Nathaniel has conquered the blue bridge!

After a morning helping Becky bake muffins, a big drink of water was needed!  

Georgia and George laxing out on the couch!

Kaitlin has begun crawling!

Anika decided the best way to put the baby to bed was to get in the cot herself!

Oanaka @ Riverside 26th July

Baxter the builder, can we fix it? Yes we can!  

Face painting in the Kahu room evolved into a full performance! 

The performers even had a back up band! 

Taylor has really enjoyed trying to work out how to drive the new swivel car! 

Magnus creating a Stickle brick masterpiece! 

A bit of quiet time, reading together.

Trinity is always so gentle towards her friends in the Weka room!

Georgia puzzling over the puzzles

Oanaka @ Riverside 19 July

THE WEKA ROOM

George is learning how his body moves and how it fits into small spaces!

Painting is still a favourite activity for Connor

The children are enjoying more challenging activities in the Weka room

THE KEA ROOM

Yes, Oanaka @ Riverside got hit with the rain! Quinn is testing out how deep the puddle is...

Helping each other out - that's what we like to see! 

Quinn, the skater boy!

THE KAHU ROOM

Emily made a fantastic plane - complete with a furry tail...

Creating more challenging obstacle courses for each other!

The Kahu room hair salon!

Sleding down the icy hill on frosty mornings!

New update from Riverside

The Weka room (infants) have been working on helping and encouraging the children with 'Problem Solving'.

 "Children feel confident in taking some responsibility for enquiring and for testing ideas to solve problems"

"Children are encouraged to identify and describe problems and helped to make connections and relationships to solve them"

"Children develop reflective and creative thinking as they contribute ideas and try them out with others"

"Children try out original and innovative ideas and exercise their imaginations to solve problems"

The Kea room (toddlers)have been encouraging the children's creativity

"Children experience an environment where they discover and develop different ways to be creative and expressive"

The Kahu room (preschool) have been working on Exploration with the children

"Children experience an environment where they gain confidence in and control of their bodies"

"Children experience an environment where they learn strategies for active exploration, thinking and reasoning"

Connor Street "Where Are You?"

"Where are you?" Well you may ask, I say! For some unexpected reason the last posting has ended up in cyber-space somewhere...I can see it but whether or not you internet explorers can remains to be seen! I'll need to get onto my 'problem-solver' (a capable parent here at Connor Street) to assist me. Meanwhile... here's a taste of what's been happening in our wee corner of the world:

Exploring technology in the Kanuka (infants) Room

Being brave and holding the vaccum by myself!

Curiosity got the better of the rest of us...we came to see for ourselves

Making yummy food for the frozen Wanaka birds (Kowhai/Kahikatea playground)



Putting the concoction into a pinecone ready to hang from a tree



The finished product ready and waiting for the birds

Chilling out at the top of the hill

Making yet another huge construction in the sandpit

Here's looking at you kid - different lenses in the Kahikatea Room (preschool)


Thanks for bearing with me, the technologically challenged one, yet again. Perhaps I should be taking lessons from my Riverside counterpart????